The park includes a garden centre and other retail outlets. Parking is free with height restriction barriers, there is a bus stop on the A1139. Peterborough Garden Park as it was originally called, was constructed at a cost of £25 million by Carter Construction, opening in February 2010.
Prior to development, the site was occupied by the Parkway Sports and Social Club and comprised football and cricket pitches, a pavilion, and a car park. These facilities were relocated to this site after the club's original ground on Maskew Avenue was sold to make way for Boulevard Retail Park, which opened around 1996. The club in Eye was unfortunately affected by repeated incidents of antisocial behaviour and break-ins. Looking further back, the land was originally agricultural but had previously formed part of the Dogsthorpe brickworks. Following the excavation of clay, the former brickworks was backfilled with inert material before eventually being returned to agricultural use.
According to Carter "As part of the design, timber was sourced from sustainable forests, the equivalent of 800 lorry loads of soil was recycled and utilised on site, low energy photo sensitive lighting was incorporated." In 2017 Norwich-based commercial property investment, development and management company, 'Targetfollow' purchased the garden park for £12 million and renamed it Peterborough One Retail Park. An Aldi opened on the site in 2020 after a 1.5 acre piece of land was sold the supermarket for £1.5million. The park was then sold to Blue Diamond for £16 million in November 2022.
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